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Help With Knoppix Linux Live CD

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1mck:
Worked like a charm dude! I was unable to get out on the internet with Suse, but it did allow me to fart around with it, and get a really good feel for what Linux is all about:) Bottom line, yeah...thumbs way up!

creedon:

quote:Originally posted by VoidMain:
I'm afraid I can't help you much other than it appears to be hanging up on your sound card (but you already knew that). And I have to admit that I've never heard of Knoppix. What made you decide to try that one as your first?

And as far as live eval CDs have you tried SuSe's run from CD eval? Of course I've never run that one either but at least it's one of the major distros. Or is Knoppix a code word for SuSe's live eval? Sorry for not being able to help.
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VoidMain, Knoppix is a German distro based on Debian; it was intended to be a "rescue" distro; it can run a complete Linux installation directly from a CD.  I've heard some good things about it, but I haven't had a chance to use it (56k downloads are a risk at my age; I might not live that long!)

voidmain:
Yeah, I checked out the web site after posting the message. I've only ever ran one distro from CD and that was that DemoLinux CD a few days ago (also Debian based). I can see where they could come in very handy as a rescue disk. You can certainly fit more on a CD then on a floppy and with OpenOffice and the like makes a pretty good demo.

creedon:

quote:Originally posted by VoidMain:
Yeah, I checked out the web site after posting the message. I've only ever ran one distro from CD and that was that DemoLinux CD a few days ago (also Debian based). I can see where they could come in very handy as a rescue disk. You can certainly fit more on a CD then on a floppy and with OpenOffice and the like makes a pretty good demo.
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I've seen several different applications that allow you to build a rescue CD for your particular installation.  When you talk about 700Mb of available file space, you could have quite the rescue disc.  I haven't tried building one yet for the following reasons:
A. I'm not that confident in my skills; I've learned everything piecemeal; no formal training.
B. I'm basically lazier than an adobe brick.
I DO keep a rescue floppy handy, though.

voidmain:
Actually they used a compressed CD file system so you actually have closer to 2GB to work with on a CD. Pretty cool.

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